Whilst reading this I've interspersed it with The Kite Runner as a school assignment, The Divine Comedy because I felt the urge to read it and The Dark Knight Returns because I need some comic book every once in awhile.

This actually marks an incredibly depressing event for me. Vonnegut overshadows every other author in my life by miles. I've been petrified of reading this ever since he died. It had been the only work he published which I have not read. I guess it was a way of keeping him alive. Now I'll never read a new Vonnegut work.

It's a fitting end to the man's life for me though. This has legitimate claim to being his best work. Classic Vonnegut tackling the meaning of life, religion, free-will, and the human condition.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Read it faster than Demian, and it's longer than it. Great, great stuff. I probably felt too identified with the character to actuall perceive everything. But, more objectively speaking, I think it's the companion book to Demian.

Now I'm thinking of starting a Beckett play, which I've never read any, I'm really curious. If not, a Sabato book. Or dunno, another Hesse? Some argentinian? Sartre? I'm lost.

It's called Critical companion to Kurt Vonnegut: a literary reference to his life and work by Susan Elizabeth Farrell, 2008

I am not sure if it's available to purchase but presume it is as it's only available as a Limited Preview on Google Books (a lot of it is available though to get the gist of whether you'll like it or not).

Finished Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and I think I'll leave the other two books as future episodes. Really enjoyable, it seems I'm having a good time with the detective / spy genre (so far Chandler, le Carré and a book by Ambler I also recall); I even was in the embarrasing mood to take my time and read much of the book out loud. Apart from one big conversation that I thought was stretched for too many chapters, I had no major gripe with it; all the steps seem to be accounted for. The adaptation, I now reflect upon, can be called, shall we say, genuine.

Picking up either a Soseki Natsume or a short stories collection by Muriel Spark next.

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